Example sentences of "more than human " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inhuman stabbed with more than human force , |
| 2 | Belief in the impassibility of God , it is worth noting , was developed in the early Christian centuries against the background of popular religious belief in the world of that day , where gods were no more than human beings on a large scale , subject to the same contingencies , passions , frustrations and feelings of pain or pleasure that determine human nature . |
| 3 | She saw herself pull back her arm , and , with more than human strength , launch a red missile . |
| 4 | Later abolitionists exemplified in Buxton and Cropper , though it might have seemed easier for them to adopt antislavery as a routine , not only maintained vital feeling in their commitment but possessed sufficient accompanying serenity — ‘ we have more than human help ’ — to accommodate setbacks and ‘ to triumph over the storms which surround them ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Be more than human . |
| 6 | Is n't that More than Human ? |
| 7 | In jest or earnest , such a man would not wish to leave this human and more than human mystery unresolved . |
| 8 | Jane Collier 's attitude to female authorship is unclear , but Henry Fielding , in a letter from Lisbon in 1754 , praised her ‘ for an understanding more than female , mixed with virtues almost more than human ’ . |
| 9 | But this log-jam is going to take some more than human effort , however sincere and weighty , to break through . |
| 10 | I saw him once in his State robes ; then , to his highly impressionable nephew , he seemed more than human . |
| 11 | For a while they were more than human . |
| 12 | ‘ You could n't grow up believing animals mattered more than human beings , could you ? |
| 13 | She recognised that their situation had imposed an intolerable strain on his self-control — as it had on her own — more than human flesh and blood could endure . |
| 14 | Land Registry officials are no more than human . |
| 15 | I grant you Dr Rafaelo is more than human . |